Hi Friends,

Hope you had a great weekend! Sending this 1 day late cause I took the kiddos to the Monterey Aquarium for the long weekend!

This week, I’ll be judging the AI Developer Week hackathon + conference with You.com. If you are there, come say hi to me at our booth!

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👉 Unfiltered Conference: A Leadership Gathering for People Leaders and Operators | San Francisco 🌉 (11:30 AM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Unfiltered is Offsite’s invite-only community conference for Chiefs of Staff, Heads of People, Executive Assistants, and leaders who build culture and systems for fast-growing organizations.

👉 🥟 Chinese New Year Dumpling-Making Party at Mission Dolores Manor 🥟 (5:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Mission Dolores Manor - Tech Founders' Coliving
💬 Celebrate Lunar New Year with a dumpling-making party at Mission Dolores Manor, as we mark the end of an era.

👉 Beta Pre-Acceleration Program｜Cohort 12 Kickoff (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Beta Pre-Acceleration Program kicks off Cohort 12, an 8-week journey for 80+ early-stage founders to level up their startups.

👉 Osaka Startup Evening Pitch & Networking (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Japan Innovation Campus
💬 Join us for an evening of innovation and connection at the Japan Innovation Campus, Silicon Valley, showcasing four high-potential startups from Japan-Osaka.

👉 AI in the Physical World: Entertainment, Music, & Media - Open Registration (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 HCSF, in collaboration with MIT, presents "AI in the Physical World: Entertainment, Music, & Media,"

👉 Built on Bedrock Demo Night (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 AWS Builder Loft
💬 Join us for "Built on Bedrock Demo Night," an exciting evening of Agentic AI demos from local startups leveraging Amazon Bedrock.

👉 🌐 Microgrids & DERs: Home Batteries as Grid Infrastructure (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 Join 9Zero for a casual meetup on microgrids and distributed energy resources (DERs), featuring Steve Joseph from Potrero Energy who will discuss home batteries as grid infrastructure.

👉 February 2026 Event: Screening of I Am Machine (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Hacker Dojo
💬 Join the Silicon Valley ISSA community and Pacific Hackers Association for a special screening of "I Am Machine," a documentary exploring human identity, technology, and cybersecurity through the life of white hat hacker Len Noe.

👉 AI Pricing in Practice: A Private Dinner for SaaS Leaders (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Financial District
💬 Anrok, RightRev, and Vayu host a private, invite-only dinner for senior SaaS finance and revenue leaders to discuss AI pricing in practice.

👉 Skills Launch Party (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Shack15
💬 Come celebrate the launch of 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚜 (skills.sh), the open agent skills ecosystem, with builders, founders, and developers working with AI agents.

👉 Data Debug SF: Lightning Talks v6⚡ (5:30 PM - 7:45 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Data Debug SF for Lightning Talks v6, featuring Zac & Eddie (Hotdata) on DataFusion + DataLake, Elvis Kahoro (dltHub)

👉 Improving Efficiency & Quality in Design Documentation (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Center for Architecture + Design
💬 This session explores how design and construction teams can improve efficiency and quality in design documentation

👉 Anyshift Product Demo! February 17th (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Mosaic
💬 Join the Anyshift team for an exclusive live demo of their agent-based remediation workflow, showcasing real-time incident resolution with persistent memory,

👉 Jan-Simon Veicht _ Director, Strategy and Experience Design @NewDealDesign (6:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
💬 Join us for a talk with Jan-Simon Veicht, Design Director at NewDealDesign, on "Designing Actionable Futures,"

👉 Founder Dinner in San Francisco [Nucleus x Soma Capital] (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Tosca Cafe
💬 Join us for a relaxed evening of delicious food and conversation at the historic Tosca Cafe, with fellow San Francisco founders, hosted by Nucleus and Soma Capital.

👉 Inception Co-Founder Matching Day #1 2026 (9:00 AM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Inception Studio hosts its first Co-Founder Matching Day of 2026 for 45 curated founders.

👉 Co-working & Lunch (11:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Founder Social Club hosts a focused co-working session and lunch for founders, operators, and investors in San Francisco.

👉 Lunar New Year Potluck + Hardware Hack Night + Fixit Clinic (6:30 PM - 12:00 AM)
📍 sudoroom
💬 Ring in the Year of the Horse at Sudo Room's Lunar New Year Potluck, Hardware Hack Night, and Fixit Clinic.

👉 Nature of Code - Chapter 9 Evolutionary Computing (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a session on Chapter 9: Evolutionary Computing from "The Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman.

👉 SWITE & TQ Ventures Private Dinner (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join SWITE & TQ Ventures for an intimate dinner bringing together extraordinary female founders and operators.

👉 Silicon Valley ISSA - VIP Lounge (8:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 Vina Enoteca
💬 Following the "I Am Machine" screening, Maro, Teleskope, & Impart will host an exclusive VIP Cybersecurity Executive Lounge at Hurrica.

👉 Get YC Ready! (5:00 AM - 7:00 AM)
📍 5 Palo Alto Square
💬 Thinking about applying to Y Combinator? Join YC Founders for a 2-hour live workshop on standing out in the application process and pitching with confidence.

👉 Collective Intelligence: Building Secure AI Agents from Prototype to Production (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM)
📍 Online
💬 Join Olivia LaHair for a practical walkthrough on building secure AI agents from prototype to production, focusing on the biggest security mistakes and how security speeds up deployment.

👉 SF Fintech Coffee February (8:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 SVB Experience Center
💬 Kick off 2026 with Fintech Coffee – San Francisco, a relaxed morning of caffeine and conversation in the heart of the city, hosted by This Week in Fintech and Silicon Valley Bank.

👉[HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: How to Sell Your Vision (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join Moti Elkaim for a Founders Bay virtual workshop on "How to Sell Your Vision," teaching founders to communicate ideas that resonate with investors, partners, and internal teams.

👉 Buildkite @ DeveloperWeek 2026 (12:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
📍 San José Convention Center & South Hall
💬 Buildkite is sponsoring DeveloperWeek, inviting you to visit their booth (M4) to connect with the team, see a demo

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Weekly Check-In For Pre & MVP Stage (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join this weekly Zoom meeting for pre- and MVP-Stage founders to share struggles, celebrate successes, and focus on self-care for high-performance.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Expert Office Hours: Startup Advice with Mariane Bekker (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Mariane Bekker offers personalized startup advice during Founders Bay Expert Office Hours, leveraging her experience as an investor, engineer, and community leader. Secure your spot for guidance on fundraising, technical strategy

👉 DealMakers Happy Hour at M&A Tech Connect 2026 (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Redwood City
💬 Join ACG Silicon Valley and Innovera.ai for the DealMakers Happy Hour at M&A Tech Connect 2026, an exclusive gathering for C-level executives, VCs, private equity professionals, and investment bankers.

👉 Forward Deployed Engineers eat the world. Modal x Snowflake (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 135 Constitution Dr
💬 Modal and Snowflake host an evening on "Forward Deployed Engineers eat the world," discussing on-the-ground experiences putting AI into production.

👉 🦀 East Bay Rust - Inaugural Meetup (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Oakland
💬 East Bay Rust is holding its inaugural meetup at the Block office, featuring talks by Bradley Axen, Brandon O'Brien, Jonathan Kelley, and Mikayla Maki on Rust and AI.

👉 🚀 SF Demo Night #16 ~ SF's Top AI Showcase 🚀 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 AWS Builder Loft
💬 SF Demo Night #16, powered by The AI Collective and Roam, showcases 8 hand-picked pre-Series A AI demos from the Bay's most visionary founders.

👉 AI Night ~ w/ DigitalOcean, Founder's Garage & Jam.dev (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 DigitalOcean, Founder's Garage, and Jam.dev invite you to their first AI Demo Night of 2026 in SF, showcasing cool AI applications.

👉 LangChain - AI Agent Meetup: Agent Observability Powers Agent Evaluation (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 501 2nd St suite 120
💬 Join LangChain's AI Agent Meetup in San Francisco with Harrison Chase, Co-founder and CEO, discussing agent observability and evaluation.

👉 Voices of Voice AI (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Render hosts "Voices of Voice AI," their first in-person community meetup, exploring how modern infrastructure, real-time audio

👉 Investor Connect Live — Real Assets, Capital & the Future of Ownership (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Novela
💬 Investor Connect Live, hosted at Novela, is a curated evening for real estate operators, investors, and capital partners focused on real-world assets

👉 Scaling SF - What Tech CFOs Bring to the Public Sector (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Brex invites you to "Scaling SF - What Tech CFOs Bring to the Public Sector," an exclusive event featuring Ned Segal

👉 Terminal Executive Dinner - San Francisco (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Nightbird
💬 Terminal invites senior engineering and technology leaders to an invite-only Executive Engineering Dinner at Nightbird in San Francisco.

👉 Ultrafast Magnetism: The Physics Behind Faster, Greener Computing (6:40 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Cafe Du Nord
💬 Join Akshay Pattabi, Assistant Professor of Engineering at the University of San Francisco

👉 After Hours @ Long Journey House 2/18 (7:00 PM - 10:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Long Journey House opens its doors for "After Hours," offering coworking space and a session on "What It Takes to Scale You as A founder?" by Aarti Bhatnagar.

👉 MelanInScience x UC Davis STEM Connect: Virtual Speed Networking (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 MelanInScience x UC Davis STEM Connect hosts a virtual speed networking event for students to engage with professionals across various STEM fields.

👉 DataDrivenPharma Forum South San Francisco - Brisbane (4:30 PM - 8:45 PM)
📍 Chandlery at the Shore
💬 DataDrivenPharma Forum at The Chandlery (Oyster Point South SF - Brisbane Area) brings together data science leaders

👉 Get Grilled by YC Backed Founders - Agentic Coding and Vibe Coding Hackathon (3:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 MOFFETT FIELD
💬 Get ready for a high-stakes "Vibecoding" sprint at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, powered by Lovable.

👉 <Let's Merge> Developer Coworking Day (10:00 AM - 3:00 PM)
📍 3108 Fillmore St b
💬 Let’s Merge is a casual coworking day for engineers, founders, and hackers in San Francisco.

👉 STAK Ventures: Speakers Series - VIP Lunch & Learn (12:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
📍 STAK Space - 1920 Broadway
💬 Join us for the STAK Ventures Speaker Series: a VIP Lunch & Learn at the iconic 1900 Broadway Tower in Oakland.

👉 Founders & Investors Meetup - Open Registration (9:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Join us for a focused, coffee-fueled morning for founders and investors to meet, share what they’re building, and make high-signal connections.

👉 UC Berkeley TECHNICAL CAMPUS MAKERSPACE CRAWL (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
💬 UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty are invited to dive into the engineering side of making with the Technical Campus Makerspace Crawl.

👉 Female Founders Breakfast on Mental Health & Founder Burnout @Tesla (10:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Tesla San Francisco - Van Ness
💬 Join Sisters – Female Founders for a curated morning for women founders, investors, and operators at the Tesla Showroom.

👉 TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 2/18 (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Shoreline Lake
💬 TechWalk is a unique networking event for the Tech and SaaS communities to get outside, meet new people, and enjoy fresh air.

👉 AI for Sales & Marketing Pitch Night (4:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Join Murray Newlands for the AI for Sales & Marketing Pitch Night, where curated AI startups will pitch their tools for revenue, growth, and customer acquisition.

👉 Engineering Leadership Dinner (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join a small, curated group of engineering leaders for an intimate, invite-only dinner in San Francisco.

👉 Founder Mixer (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 This Founder Mixer brings together early-stage and builders for real conversations, designed by founders, for founders.

👉 San Francisco Legal Tech Meetup - Open Registration (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 We’re gathering the Bay Area legal tech community for the San Francisco Legal Tech Meetup.

👉 Airframe’s Table #3 | Capital and the Stack (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Airframe's Table #3 in SF curates a private dinner for 8 leaders to explore the financial and operational edge of technology.

👉 Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Startup Valley — San Francisco hosts a curated pitch night for founders, operators, angels, and VC partners. 4-8 startups will pitch live and receive candid feedback from investors

👉 Breakfast of Dev Champions (8:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Kilo Code, LlamaIndex, MiniMax, and Martian are hosting breakfast for DeveloperWeek hackathon attendees. Come hungry for special edition cookies, smoothies, and breakfast burritos

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: Discovery That Doesn’t Suck: Stop Pitching, Start Diagnosing (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Online
💬 Laura Garrison leads a Founders Bay virtual workshop on "Discovery That Doesn’t Suck," teaching early-stage founders how to run natural, consultative discovery calls. Learn to diagnose real problems, position products with precision

👉 Closing the Loop on Nitrogen Management - low-cost, clean ammonia ft. Ammobia (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM)
📍 Stanford
💬 Join us for a symposium on Closing the Loop on Nitrogen Management, featuring Tristan Gilbert, co-founder and CTO of Ammobia.

👉 Cal Café w/ Canvas Prime & DTCP (8:00 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 535 Mission St suite 2210
💬 Swing by the DTCP office for "Cal Café w/ Canvas Prime & DTCP," a casual morning meetup with fellow Berkeley founders, funders, and friends.

👉 Agilent Seahorse XF Pro Training (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 1030 Brittan Ave
💬 Advance your metabolic research with expert training on the Agilent Seahorse XF Pro Analyzer, the cutting-edge platform for real-time, live-cell metabolic analysis.

👉 Starting Sift with Founder Jason Tan (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join us for "Starting Sift with Founder Jason Tan," an event featuring Jason Tan sharing insights from his journey as a founder.

👉 Tech Career Showcase (3:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The Tech Career Showcase offers an inclusive hiring experience, connecting job seekers with startups and teams actively looking for their next hires. This human-first event features employer booths

👉 San Jose Plug-In (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 2 W Santa Clara St
💬 The San Jose Plug-In offers a brief startup presentation followed by networking. Attendees can check in, hear from startups, and connect with other participants.

👉 🌉 Support Engineering Lunch - Bay Area (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 This Bay Area Support Engineering Lunch explores how support and engineering teams collaborate to solve customer issues, uncover insights, and leverage AI to supercharge workflows.

👉 Morning Standup - Breakfast at Developer Week (8:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Escape the tradeshow floor at Developer Week and kick off your Thursday with a gourmet breakfast across the street from the convention center.

👉 Hack Night at Wordware Beach House (4:00 PM - 8:45 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hack Night at Wordware Beach House offers five hours of focused building for developers, with zero BS. Show up with an idea, turn it into something real, and demo it

👉 From Systems of Record to Systems of Action: Data Pipelines in the Age of AI (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 4733 Chabot Dr suite 175
💬 This Business Systems and Analytics User Group meetup focuses on moving from Systems of Record to Systems of Action in the Age of AI, exploring how founders and operators build trustworthy systems.

👉 Identifying and Leveraging Your Strengths in Post-Sales (4:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 156 2nd St
💬 The San Francisco Women of Customer Success community kicks off 2026 with an intimate fireside chat with Kelly Sweeney (VP of CS at Guideline) and a hands-on workshop on identifying and leveraging strengths in post-sales.

👉 Airwallex: Inside Agentic Finance (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Airwallex San Francisco
💬 Airwallex hosts "Inside Agentic Finance," an invite-only happy hour at their SF HQ for fintech founders, operators, and product builders.

👉 Product & Business Strategy in AI: Talks + AI Agent Workshops (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 135 Constitution Dr
💬 TechEquity Ai invites you to an evening of applied AI learning at the Snowflake SV AI Hub, focusing on product and business strategy in AI.

👉 The New Commerce Creative Stack: AI Video, Influencers, and Shoppable Experiences (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 EntreConnect presents "The New Commerce Creative Stack," a practical conversation on how AI video, influencers, and shoppable experiences are reshaping commerce marketing.

👉 AI Camp X Oracle workshop - Open Registration (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 AI Camp and Oracle are co-hosting an AI workshop at Frontier Tower, focusing on AI-related topics. This event is part of the Frontier Tower's mission to be a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts, offering insights and hands-on experience.

👉 Lead Generation & Automation: From Manual to Scalable (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Japan Innovation Campus
💬 Join Luke Kim, Lead Generation & Automation Master, for an interactive demo-style session on building repeatable, scalable lead engines.

👉 The Founders Lounge (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 The Founders Lounge is a curated gathering for early-stage founders to connect, swap ideas, and recharge without pressure.

👉 Notable Capital X BASES Archery Evening (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Notable Capital and BASES invite you to an archery evening, offering a chance to connect with the team from this global VC firm focused on early-to-growth-stage companies

👉 Start Right, Avoid Common Mistakes & Pitfalls (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 5 Palo Alto Square
💬 Access Silicon Valley presents an essential workshop on "Start Right, Avoid Common Mistakes & Pitfalls," guiding entrepreneurs through critical aspects of launching a fundable and scalable startup.

👉 Identity as the Attack Surface: Architecting Auth for Autonomous Agents (5:15 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 This salon addresses the emerging risks of agentic AI, where identity becomes the attack surface for autonomous agents operating across enterprise systems.

👉 The 2026 Fundraising Playbook: What Founders Must Do Today (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join an in-depth conversation with four leading investors on "The 2026 Fundraising Playbook," breaking down how fundraising will evolve and how early-stage founders can position themselves to win.

👉 GenAI: Tech Deep Dive into Real-Time Video Generation (5:30 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 European Startup Embassy
💬 Join us for "GenAI: Tech Deep Dive into Real-Time Video Generation," a panel discussion with leading experts on AI models reshaping digital creation into responsive, real-time experiences.

👉 ZGO Perfume Experience (hosted by Baseten & Braintrust) (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Baseten & Braintrust host a ZGO Perfume Experience for AI women leaders, featuring drinks, discussion, and a guided fragrance experience.

👉 Future of Us: /dev/color Bay Area Kickoff Mixer (5:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 4055 Telegraph Ave
💬 /dev/color kicks off 2026 with an in-person mixer focusing on the future of tech, collaboration, and personal growth. Connect with your squad, collaborate across the community

👉 Hardware Pitch Night @ Studio 45 (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Studio 45
💬 Join us for Hardware Pitch Night at Studio 45, featuring live pitches from hard tech founders to hardware-friendly investors.

👉 San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Chroma
💬 Join us for the San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup, an evening of talks and community discussion on Apache DataFusion's role in modern data infrastructure.

👉 🍎 SF Apple Admin User Group - In-Person & Virtual (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Hej!Workshop with Industrious
💬 The SF Apple Admin User Group hosts its February Meetup for Apple administration insights, networking, and community. F

👉 Goanna Capital × ElevenLabs DeveloperWeek Happy Hour (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 150 W San Carlos St
💬 Join DeveloperWeek for an invite-only happy hour co-hosted by ElevenLabs and Goanna Capital. This is a chance to slow down, grab a drink, and talk with people who are actually building things

👉 GTM in AI (Founder Sales Masterclass) (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Lightfield
💬 Join Lightfield's founders and special guests for a tactical conversation on "GTM in AI (Founder Sales Masterclass)," exploring how AI transforms finding, engaging, and closing customers.

👉 Leopard.FYI SF Happy Hour @ DOSS 💜 ◼️ (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 144 2nd St
💬 Leopard.FYI hosts a Low Key Happy Hour at the DOSS Office in FIDI, San Francisco, for women & non-binary senior engineers and engineering leaders.

👉 eChai: Women In Tech (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Roger Bar and Restaurant
💬 eChai: Women in Tech invites women building, leading, and shaping technology to an evening curated for real conversations, shared stories, and meaningful connections.

👉 YC Christian Founders Meetup (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 YC Christian Founders Meetup invites Christian (and curious) YC founders to talk about work, faith, and life, featuring speaker Mike Seashols

👉 ⚡️ SF Bay Area Data Engineering Happy Hour - Feb'26🥂 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 870 Market St #528
💬 Join us for the SF Bay Area Data Engineering Happy Hour, an evening of insightful discussions on the latest in Data Engineering.

👉 Bits in Bio and Frontier Tower Present: "Invalidated: Tales from the Biotech Trenches" (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Bits in Bio and Frontier Tower present "Invalidated: Tales from the Biotech Trenches," sharing hard-won lessons from the deep tech industry.

👉 FAULT LINES CLUB / 001 (6:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 FAULT LINES CLUB / 001 is a curated, bi-monthly dinner series in San Francisco designed to reject the echo chamber and foster shared inquiry.

👉 15th San Jose Hardware Meetup @ Circuit Launch (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 The 15th San Jose Hardware Meetup at Circuit Launch Mountain View invites hardware enthusiasts to bring demos for open mic and hear from guest speakers.

👉 February 3H: Heart Edition! (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 SPARK Social SF
💬 Join us for February 3H: Heart Edition, a hardware rendezvous to celebrate all things hardware! Bring a Valentine-inspired creation or any hardware project to share

👉 CocoaHeads x Swift Language User Group (SLUG) | February 19th Meetup (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Sentry
💬 CocoaHeads x Swift Language User Group (SLUG) hosts a monthly meetup at Sentry, featuring talks by local Swift community members J'aime Ohm on AI and Saagar Jha on developer tools.

👉 Serna Bio - Lecture Series #2 (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 The Serna Bio lecture series spotlights bold operators and founders in AI and biology, showcasing diverse paths shaping the field. This lecture features Andrew Goldberg from HealthVerity

👉 🌐 Meetup - Data Science Cluster (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 Join the 9Zero Data Science Cluster for a casual gathering of folks passionate about data and the planet, connecting over climate analytics and climate solutions.

👉 EchoHer Pitch #8 (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 EchoHer Pitch #8 spotlights five dynamic women-led AI startups building the future across applied AI, enterprise, and emerging tech. Investors, founders, operators, and AI enthusiasts can connect, learn, and be inspired.

👉 The SF Grind: Curated Seed+ Founders Dinner (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Justin for a curated dinner for Seed to Series A founders in SF, sponsored by Fidelity Private Shares and Mercury.

👉 Free Ventures x Rho Batch Kickoff Dinner (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 Berkeley
💬 Join Free Ventures x Rho for their Spring 2026 Batch Kickoff Dinner at UC Berkeley.

👉 Noon Barbari #3 (8:30 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Persian Founders and Funders are invited to Noon Barbari #3 at The ThinkTank.vc for a cozy Friday morning breakfast and to share their journeys.

👉 Western Digital SCU HQ Tour (9:30 AM - 3:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Western Digital invites SCU GFA and Graduate Business Career Services students to an HQ Tour + Visit, featuring a behind-the-scenes look, a live Q&A with SCU alumni, lunch, networking, and guest speakers.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] AI B2B VC/Founder Breakfast @ Focus Innovation Studio (10:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The morning features a curated panel of top AI investors and operators diving into what actually matters right now.

👉 Women in Leadership: Networking & Connect (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 The women of Enrich are invited to a small group for connection, problem-solving, and relationship building.

👉 B2B Growth & Marketing Mixer (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 3039 Meridian Ave
💬 South Bay B2B marketers, growth pros, and GTM leaders are invited to a casual evening of networking.

👉 Builders & Gamers Meet & Play @Supercell (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Builders & Gamers Meet & Play at Supercell invites builders across San Francisco to escape the grind and link up with fellow creatives for a casual game night.

👉 Pitch online to CVC's/VC's/angels+1 investor meet@SJSU (9:00 AM - 12:30 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Pitch Global hosts virtual and hybrid investor events for global entrepreneurs, featuring keynote speakers and engagement with up to 10 investors from their extensive network.

👉 ZeroDB Certification Program - Advanced Mastery (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 The ZeroDB Advanced Mastery Certification is the highest-level technical credential for developers building AI-native systems.

👉 Joby in the Bay Area (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 5 Pier 5 suite 101
💬 Join us for a Bay Area flight demonstration tentatively scheduled for February 20, reflecting on America’s aviation legacy and future transportation.

👉 Superhero Hotel Lobby Open Decks & Founders Hang (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Superhero Hotel
💬 You are invited to hang out in the beautiful new lobby of the Superhero Hotel. Unwind at the end of the week, take tours of the space, and hear our vision for the founders residency hotel

👉 Space Meeting #00??: Lunar Construction Methods - Surface Habitats or Lava Tubes? (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 It's time to steal the moon! The Small Steps & Giant Leaps community is invited to tour GRU, the company building construction equipment for humanity's first off-world industrial base.

👉 It's a Walk in the Park! #3 (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Platform invites founders (current, aspiring, exited), investors, and academics to "It's a Walk in the Park! #3" for networking and discussion on early-stage startup building in Golden Gate Park.

👉 On the Green (Feb) (11:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 Presidio Golf Course
💬 Join "On the Green," a founder-friendly clinic blending golf learning with networking, offering personalized instruction for all levels.

👉 Human Enhancement Hackathon - Phase 1 (12:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 The "Human Enhancement Hackathon" is a beginner-friendly, two-phase build experience exploring augmented humanity, from AI-native applications to biohacking tools.

👉 Founder's Corner: Columbia Alumni – NorCal Edition (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 The Farm
💬 Founder's Corner: Columbia Alumni – NorCal Edition gathers Columbia alumni founders and founder-minded alumni at The Farm for a focused afternoon of conversation, peer support, and connection.

👉 AI Hackathon: TBA (10:00 AM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Spaces - San Francisco - Levi's Plaza
💬 Join us for an AI Hackathon in SF, bringing together builders, founders, and YC judges for a one-day event focused on bold ideas, teamwork, and innovation.

👉 AI Agents - February Hackathon (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join the r/AI_Agents online hackathon for a chance to win a 20k investment, building an AI Agent that can scale into a real business.

👉 Pitch Global: Investors+SJSU community register for free (10:00 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Discover Pitch Global’s Premier UC Berkeley Extension Virtual and Hybrid Investor Events, featuring keynote speakers, up to 10 featured investors, and 15–20 additional investors.

👉 Playtesting & Pints @ The Detour in SF! (7:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 The Detour
💬 A selection of independently developed games from our community will be available for play at designated tables in the venue!

👉 The Hard-to-Reach Hackathon (9:00 AM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Entrepreneurs First
💬 The Hard-to-Reach Hackathon is a one-day build sprint to get a celebrity on FaceTime. Teams will build a real product or system to reach a high-profile individual

👉 Space Meeting #00??: Living on the ISS (5:45 PM - 9:45 PM)
📍 New York
💬 This placeholder event will feature a discussion on the tech involved in living on the International Space Station, with community members astronaut Cady Coleman and former chief scientist of NASA Dr. Jim Green.

👉 Celebrity Hunt Hackathon (9:00 AM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The Celebrity Hunt Hackathon is a one-day build sprint for people who believe the fastest way to reach powerful, high-influence individuals is through a product and a costume. 

👉 The SF Grind: Curated Female Founder Morning Collective (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Justin for a curated female founder morning collective, bringing together bootstrapped and VC-backed founders in SF for coffee, tea, pastries, and connection. .

👉 Tejas Bay Area Chapter: Hiking Event: Hackers on the Trail (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Ohlone Regional Wilderness
💬 Will share exact trail details closer to date for the Tejas Bay Area Chapter: Hiking Event: Hackers on the Trail.

👉 /to-prod (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 2470 Telegraph Ave
💬 /to-prod is an informal, bi-weekly event for top builders shipping with Cursor. Focused on deep work and unblocking peers

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Over the past week at Founders Bay workshops and founder gatherings, one thing became clear: the startup ecosystem is shifting fast.

Founder events are no longer just about networking — they’re becoming infrastructure for building companies, raising capital, and moving faster in an AI-driven world.

Here are the key insights founders should take away.

The strongest founders aren’t collecting business cards — they’re embedding themselves in high-trust ecosystems.

In an era of AI abundance, signal travels through people, not platforms.

AI is compressing build cycles, automating ops, and lowering costs.

But the founders winning right now pair speed with clarity:

AI amplifies direction — it doesn’t create it.

Messy ops are killing momentum.

Founders scaling well are prioritizing:

Operations isn’t overhead anymore — it’s leverage.

Money hasn’t disappeared.

Investors are backing founders who can clearly explain:

Clarity is the new fundraising advantage.

The next generation of breakout companies won’t be built on hype.

They’ll be built by founders who:

A new founder archetype is emerging — and we’re watching it form in real time.

View the entire workshop video here: